Knight in his armour
I fully support Peter Knight's stirring critique of censorship. The choice of what we look at, read or listen to must reside with the individual in society and not be dictated by outmoded laws. While...
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Marks sparks
An invitation to pro-cannabis campaigner Howard Marks to address the National Union of Students conference this week allowed departing new Labour NUS president Douglas Trainer to utter words the...
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Knight in his armour
UNDER the absolute monarchy of Louis XIV and his successors, two systems of censorship operated. The repressive method (used retrospectively) involved the seizure of works after publication for such...
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Mything, presumed lost
Reading last week's letter (THES, March ) from the unknown market warrior who believed that his/her research assessment exercise rating warranted a pay promotion above less successful (and, by...
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Mything, presumed lost
I have been concerned to read recommendations re the RAE that credit for research should be attached to the institution in which the research was done, and particularly that these recommendations...
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Disloyalty to Oxford
The Master of Pembroke College, Oxford's remarks to the American Association of University Administrators meeting ("Oxford slips in world league for a fee", THES, March ) beggared belief. They were...
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Rally for pay review
Your anonymous correspondent (THES, March ) is correct to identify our outdated system of pay determination as a major cause of declining pay levels. National collective bargaining, operating as it...
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A concerted offensive in quango land?
Attacks on educational research by education officials and quangos such as Ofsted must stop, argues Peter Mortimore WHY is educational research being attacked? Is it significantly worse than research...
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Drug-dealer student suspended and reported after THES article
BIRMINGHAM University student Andrew Lockley has been reported to the police and suspended from his degree course just weeks before finals for admitting using and supplying drugs in an article...
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Target failure forces job cuts
DOZENS of posts are to be axed, threatening course closures, at the University of East London as it struggles to balance its budget in the face of under-recruitment. Staff heard on Tuesday this week...
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Tower of strength: Andrew Pakes, the leader of the National Union of Students
(Photograph) - Tower of strength: Andrew Pakes, the newly-elected leader of the National Union of Students, vowed to carry on the fight against fees at the union's conference in Blackpool this week....
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Pounds 400m research ransom
THE government must spend at least an extra Pounds 400 million on research infrastructure if Britain's future prosperity is not to be put at risk, the powerful House of Commons science and technology...
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Engineers fire lone salvo at RAE
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has launched a blistering attack on the research assessment exercise in its submission to the funding council's consultation. It questions the...
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Oxford is doing all right, thank you
THE FEAR that Oxford is losing its ability to compete as a world-class institution expressed by Robert Stevens, master of Pembroke College, is unfounded, the chair of the university's international...
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Pay talks postponed after 'dismal' offer
THENEXT round of higher education pay negotiations will take place on April 22 after a meeting last Friday was postponed. Eight unions are representing higher education staff, and there is widespread...